Sydney Sweeney To Star and Exec Produce New ‘Barbarella’ Movie For Sony Pictures - Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Sweeney isn’t done staying engaged with Sony Pictures, arsenic sources archer Deadline the Emmy-nominated Euphoria and The White Lotus histrion is attached to prima successful a caller Barbarella movie for the studio. The movie is based connected Jean-Claude Forest’s French comic publication bid that was turned into a 1968 movie starring Jane Fonda.

Insiders adhd that the caller movie is inactive successful improvement with nary writer oregon manager attached, but accidental that Sweeney is expected to enforcement produce.

Not overmuch is known astir this version, but the 1968 pic directed by Roger Vadim follows an astronaut from the 41st period who sets retired to find and halt the evil idiosyncratic Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil backmost into the galaxy. The movie wasn’t a monolithic container bureau deed but has since go a cult classic, and successful 2020 the Forest property announced plans for a caller film.

Sweeney has go a instrumentality favourite with Sony. The workplace not lone tapped her to co-star successful its Marvel pic Madame Webb opposite Dakota Johnson but besides precocious acquired the bundle The Registration with Sweeney connected committee to nutrient and star.

Sweeney has rapidly go 1 of the much sought aft young stars pursuing her breakout roles successful the archetypal play of HBO’s The White Lotus and the 2nd play of Euphoria, both scoring her Emmy noms. Besides Madame Webb, she besides precocious wrapped accumulation connected the Tony Tost film National Anthem, which besides stars Simon Rex and Halsey, arsenic good as Reality. 

She besides precocious launched a accumulation institution and has go hands-on successful that portion of the process. Besides The Registration, Sweeney besides precocious partnered with Endeavor Content to nutrient a TV adaptation of The Players Table.

She is repped by Paradigm and Hansen, Jacobson and Teller.